Noah Poli

Noah Poli (8 October 1782-29 January 1814) was a colonel of the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He was killed at the Battle of Bar-le-Duc.

Biography
Noah Poli was born in Nevers in central France in 1782, and was drafted into the French army in 1798. He fought against the Austrians in Germany in 1800 under Jean Victor Marie Moreau as a private in the Chasseurs, and served in the Napoleonic Wars of 1805-1814. In 1814 he was promoted to Colonel during the levee en masse and fought at the head of his own regiment of Chasseurs during the Defense of France, and he led an attack on General Hans Henric von Essen's Swedish army at the Battle of Bar-le-Duc in January 1814. Poli was mortally wounded in the fighting, and his regiment suffered heavy losses.